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Cute and Sickly Sweet – 24 Vintage Snapshots That Invite a Reaction
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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What is Objectivism? Ayn Rand’s Philosophy
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Stock Car Racing in 1972
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In the early 1970s Henry Horenstein was taking photos of Speedway racers and fans at circuits in Seekonk, Massachusetts and Thompson, Connecticut. In 1972, women only raced each other, hair was grown out crewcuts slicked and draped, and TV-led big business had yet to move in....
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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Do you have less free time than a medieval peasant?
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What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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What Were the Main Aims of Fauvism?
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The Birth of Ovid
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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7 Facts About the Ghent Altarpiece
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits: The Artist Through His Own Eyes
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One, Two (1965)
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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An Exhibition on Rational Dress for Victorian Women
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André Rigaud: Napoleon’s Man in Haiti
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Doctors Against Genocide Cancels Event at Holocaust Museum
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Artist Steals 17th-Century Coin From British Museum
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
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Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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Who Were the Telchines? The Malevolent Wizards From Greek Mythology
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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10 Banned Literary Classics You Might Not Know
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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7 Breathtaking Paintings Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays
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Who Were the Axis Powers?
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Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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The Stolen Generations: The Mass Removal of Aboriginal Children
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Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
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4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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The Life of Terence
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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)
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6 Revolutionary Works by H. G. Wells
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Dreams of Space -...
Collier's Encyclopedia Space Articles (1959)
This is a pamphlet distributed to schools to convince student and teachers to buy their...
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This last essay is actually from 1952, it is a nice...
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What Are the Most Similar Languages?
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Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
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...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
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Peter Hujar’s Portraits of Life and Death: A Somberly Beautiful Photography Collection (1976)
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Shown at the Venice Biennale 2024, Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life And Death exhibition features his 1970s portraits of artists on New York’s Lower East Side and images from the 1960s of the dead in Palermo’s catacombs. Peter Hujar’s (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) black...
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Journal of African cities chapter 6
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The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh?
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The First Italo-Ethiopian War: When the Colonizers Lost
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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Henri Matisse: Outstanding Paintings by the French Fauvist Master
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John Ruskin: His Key Ideas that Defined an Artistic Era
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Is Subjective Equal to Objective?
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The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae
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Should We Glorify Caesar?
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The Culper Ring: How Espionage Won the American Revolution
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Bertolt Brecht: 10 Facts About the Famous Playwright
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Understanding What's Happening in France.
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A Brief Timeline of Ancient Egyptian Art
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean
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Sorites Paradox: Why Traditional Logic Is Not Omnipotent
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
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Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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5 Interesting 1980s Subcultures: From Goth to Punk to Skinheads
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Dreams of Space -...
Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space with Terry (1952)
Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a...
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Mara. Sky-Hi: A Trip Into Space With Terry. Personal History Agency : NY. 22 p. 1952
It came in a nice gift box with a space quiz. It is a little bit of an odd astronomy book. The illustration are very beautiful and if you notice each planet has smaller people in the picture to...
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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Decoding Julius Caesar’s “I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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4 Norse Myths That Inspired Cinema
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8 Marcel Duchamp Paintings You Should Know About
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Three Cabins Left
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7 of the Most Iconic Monuments in Russia
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The Tudor War on Libel
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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How Bayonets Revolutionized Warfare
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8 Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity
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The Secret SS Mission to Tibet You’ve Never Heard Of
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6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement
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Everything You Need to Know About Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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Valhalla & the Other Afterlives in Norse Mythology
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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An Art Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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What Is Mudlarking? Treasure Hunting in the Thames
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Who Was Frantz Fanon?
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Rudolf Koppitz Nudes And Other Studies Photographs That Capture The Fluidity Of Nature
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Austrian photographer Rudolf Koppitz (4 January 1884 – 8 July 1936) was a Photo-Secessionist in Vienna, Austria, best known for his 1925 work Bewegungsstudie (“Motion Study”) and his use of the nude in natural settings. Working with Claudia Issachenko’s dance group – the troupe...
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Dear Goldprick: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters
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“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue. – Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming Many … Continue reading "Dear...
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the 1980s
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Peter Marshall has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It?
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.
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Collectors Pull Lent Works From London’s Barbican
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
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French Antique Art Dealers Against New E.U. Import Restrictions
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5 Great Books by Alexandre Dumas
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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6 Incredible Sites From Moorish Spain
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Who Was Ben Black Elk?
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Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation?
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Rehabilitating the East India Company’s Nabobs
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
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10 Most Socially Progressive Countries You Can Move To
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The East African Campaign of WWI: Germany vs The Allies in East Africa
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‘As Gods Among Men’ by Guido Alfani review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Sumter?
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Dr Alun Withey
Cuts, Rashes & Chatter! The Pain of the 18th-century Shave!
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today...
over a year ago
Unless there are particular reasons, for example a skin condition, or a faulty razor, shaving today is usually a pretty mundane – if not a pleasant – experience. Indeed, the rise of traditional barbershops over the past few years, offering shaving as an experience, together with...
TheCollector
What Was Robert Mapplethorpe Inspired By?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
What is the History of Christmas? A Journey Through Time
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2 weeks ago
TheCollector
Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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a year ago
Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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a year ago
TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Life of Aldous Huxley — Author of “Brave New World”
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Are the Zapatistas? Unmasking Mexico’s Indigenous Guerrilla Army
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6 months ago
TheCollector
8 Must-See Highlights From London’s Soane Museum
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5 months ago
TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design
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a month ago
TheCollector
Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art
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5 months ago
TheCollector
4 Sumerian Inventions that Changed the World
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a year ago
TheCollector
Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
TheCollector
Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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7 months ago
TheCollector
The Beguines: The Hermits Who Became Medieval Celebrities
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3 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Euripides
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
a year ago
The Greatest Writer of Greek Tragedy?
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
TheCollector
Battle of the Granicus (334 BCE): Alexander’s Conquest Begins
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9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
2 months ago
Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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2 months ago
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Bruegel the Elder Depict the Seasons?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
FBI Returns Nazi-Looted Monet to Jewish Collector’s Heirs
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2 months ago
TheCollector
Ming Dynasty Artefacts Found in South China Shipwreck
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6 months ago
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota?
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7 months ago
TheCollector
Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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a year ago
TheCollector
Les Soixante-Huitards: The French Student Demonstrations of May 1968
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Influential People of the British Empire?
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Mandate of Heaven in Imperial China?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Events Listing
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
a year ago
Ancient Women, Marcus Aurelius, Economics and Resilience...
TheCollector
Artist Seals Himself in Glass Bottle at Paris Olympic Stadium
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5 months ago
TheCollector
6 Magical Realists to Read after Borges
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a year ago
TheCollector
Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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a month ago
TheCollector
How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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a year ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 days ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Celebrate Cicero!
12 months ago
TheCollector
Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye
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6 days ago
History Today Feed
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
4 months ago
Scandals of the Glorious Revolution
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:14
TheCollector
Luxembourg in WWII: From Neutrality to Occupation
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3 days ago
TheCollector
5 Interesting Historic Events That Happened on Christmas Day
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a week ago
TheCollector
What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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3 months ago
Trying to Understand...
War in Dreamland
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
5 months ago
Against mythology, reality itself contends in vain.
TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties?
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3 months ago
TheCollector
Neon: The Cool History of the Enigmatic Noble Gas
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6 months ago
Flashbak
Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
3 months ago
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
Dreams of Space -...
Rockets - The Magazine of Space Flight (Feb and Dec 1946)
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are...
over a year ago
The Rockets Journal was a post-war publication of the United States Rocket Society. There are several online issues here
https://fanac.org/fanzines/Rockets/
Here is a biography of the controversial editor:
https://www.joshuablubuhs.com/blog/robert-l-farnsworth-as-a-fortean
I...
TheCollector
Iowa Museum Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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5 months ago
Flashbak
Henri Van Der Stok’s Zodiac Stars And Gods
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he...
4 months ago
Dutch artist Henri van der Stok (1870-1946) was born in Indonesia and settled in the Hague, where he was a member of the city’s Pulchri Studio. He created these brilliant woodcuts of planetary gods and zodiac signs. As John Couthlart notes, van der Stok’s work trails that of...
TheCollector
Why Emmanuel Levinas Called Ethics the “First Philosophy”
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
One Of My Essays In Dutch.
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and...
11 months ago
I’m pleased to say that one of my readers in the Netherlands has been kind enough to produce and send to me a translation into Dutch of my recent essay “What’s Left and What’s Left?” The translator has elected to remain anonymous, but I’m extremely grateful, and please join me in...
TheCollector
Did This Psychoanalytical Cult Kill Jackson Pollock?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman!
How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
How was it for the ancient ladies?
TheCollector
12 Most Important Art Techniques of Modern Times
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3 weeks ago
TheCollector
4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil
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2 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
7 months ago
‘The House Divided’ by Barnaby Rogerson
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:51
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
over a year ago
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
TheCollector
England’s Reformation: Edward VI’s Protestant Reforms
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5 months ago
TheCollector
Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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7 months ago
History Today Feed
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
4 months ago
Richard III and Kingly Justice for All?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/08/2024 - 08:38
TheCollector
The US Senate Seeks Explanation for Leon Black’s Art Dealings
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a year ago
TheCollector
4 Key Techniques of 20th-Century Photography
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9 months ago
TheCollector
7 Works by Romaine Brooks You Should Know
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a month ago
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II?
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10 months ago
TheCollector
The History of Method Acting in Hollywood in 8 Lessons
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
a year ago
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
History Today Feed
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
4 months ago
‘The Tame and the Wild’ by Marcy Norton review
JamesHoare
Tue, 08/20/2024 - 09:18
History Today Feed
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
2 months ago
The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
TheCollector
Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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3 months ago
TheCollector
What Makes Alberto Giacometti’s Sculptures So Special?
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a year ago
TheCollector
9 Works That Defined El Greco’s Career
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10 months ago
African History...
The 'hidden founders' of African studies in Europe: African intellectuals in the Holy Roman Empire...
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then...
a month ago
In June 1652, the Ethiopian scholar Abba Gorgoryos reached the city of Nuremburg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire (modern Germany) where he met Hiob Ludolf, an envoy and linguist whom later generations of ‘Ethiopists’ would regard as the founder of Ethiopian studies in...
Flashbak
Photos of America’s Most Muscular Bodybuilders – A World of Buttock Make-Up Artists, Sinew and Spray...
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade....
12 months ago
The year is young – and your commitment to fitness and that new you for the year has begun to fade. Time then to see what you could become if you persevere with photographer Brian Finke’s series on bodybuilding contests. In Most Muscular, Finke, who started his project when he...
TheCollector
10 Heartbreaking Facts About the Rwandan Genocide
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Religions Decline?
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
a month ago
Why Do Religions Decline?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/21/2024 - 09:06
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room.
And don't say a word about Europe.
7 months ago
And don't say a word about Europe.
Classical Wisdom
Can We Be Humane In the Face of Horror?
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
a year ago
What is needed to stop violent cycles?
TheCollector
4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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8 months ago
TheCollector
7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates?
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
TheCollector
Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
7 months ago
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
6 days ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Christie’s to Auction $30 Million Basquiat Stretcher-Bar Painting
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8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on themes in African art.
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
5 months ago
Cartography, Culture and History in the artwork of the Bamum kingdom.
TheCollector
Anne Brontë: The First Feminist Novelist?
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8 months ago
Flashbak
American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
TheCollector
What Was Kantai Kessen?
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6 months ago
TheCollector
A History of the United States Senate
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a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Belmont?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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8 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Yuri's Night is April 12th!
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri...
a year ago
Dream About Gagarin (1961)
Celebrating "Yuri's Night." This is the celebration of Yuri Gagarin 1st manned flight into space in Vostok 1, which completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. So this book is also from 1961 suggesting that children should dream of this...
TheCollector
10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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a week ago
TheCollector
Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
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